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You've probably heard that you're supposed to get like 10,000 steps a day,

but according to new research, just 7,000 steps a day could be enough to improve your health.

Do I hear sex?

It really sounds like scientists have lowered their expectations for us.

Explains by the new Surgeon General Warning on Cigarette says,

Do not smoke during pregnancy unless it's your second kid, then what else?

Yeah, I like the jokes, but the problem is the original 10,000 step thing was completely made up.

The problem with a lot of health stats, and we're about to get into some here is they're misinterpreted regularly.

Oftentimes, they're very, very small preliminary studies that the researchers themselves would never put out there as a national story to talk about.

But it's something exciting about something that can cause cancer or eliminate cancer or whatever.

And so the media goes crazy with it.

And then there is studies that are paid for by like, you know, mattress companies or candy bars or whatever.

And lo and behold, the study says eating more chocolate leads to better sex life or whatever, you know.

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